DCS: Cold War Germany - preview

[cfrag]

9 minutes ago, Flаnker said:

I would really like these planes to appear at least as static objects that you can place yourself in the mission editor.

Agreed - TBH, I'd really like most of the objects seen in the map to be available as statics: Litfassäulen, buses, cars, airport utils (even better than the venerable virpil pack), the works. These Ugra maps (IMHO) are chock full of fantastic objects that I'd just love to place myself to touch up my mission's focus scenery. Here's hoping for a 'Germany Scenery Pack'.  

[MAESTR0]

Hi fighters!
Today we have an architectural tour "From Rostock to Potsdam: Architectural gems on your map" of small towns in Germany. We will walk from the Baltic Sea to the central lands, from strict Hanseatic Gothic to lush Baroque.

Fulda - a Baroque treasury

Fulda city palace

The cathedral constitutes the high point of the Baroque district of Fulda, and is a symbol of the town.

Rostock was the largest port in the GDR and the center of East German shipbuilding.

St. Mary's Church

Kassel - the Fairytale capital of Germany. The city was made famous throughout the world by the Brothers Grimm. Kassel and its surroundings became the very treasury from which the famous fairy tales arose.

A gigantic bronze statue of Hercules, 8.25 metres high and weighing 3 tons

Kassel Lowenburg. The castle stands on a hill 92 meters high in the Bavarian Alps.

Wilhelmshöhe Palace is a Neoclassical palace

Orangery (Kassel)

Potsdam. Situated on the Havel River and on the banks of several interconnected lakes, 20 km southwest of central Berlin.

University of Potsdam and the New Palace

Lübeck is a city in northern Germany. A port on the Baltic Sea near the mouth of the Trave River. Historically known as the largest center of the Hanseatic League.

Major landmarks are included in the UNESCO World Heritage List  @M-Flux  get the helicopter ready!

St. Mary's Church (Lübeck)

Schwerin Castle is a fairytale island castle (1845-1857) — the "Neuschwanstein of the North"

Schloss Charlottenburg (Berlin) - one of the most exquisite examples of Baroque architecture in Germany.

We won't let you go without airbases:
Sperenberg was as a key location for the Soviet forces in East Germany. The airport was a designated transport airfield, and so was equipped with heavy transport types such as the IL-76 and AN-22. The airfield also housed attack helicopters for defensive purposes, as well as out-stationed and transiting bombers. Great location, lots of forest, beyond which only the tails of the planes are visible.

Hahn Air Base, a military airbase operated by the US Air Force. (USAF 50th Tactical Fighter Wing) 
Your F-16 will be based here.

 

 

 

 

NOTAM: FLLW CHNNL, THEY SHW EXTRA STFF

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[ThorBrasil]

This map is impressive! No words to describe!

[MAXsenna]

2 hours ago, cfrag said:

Agreed - TBH, I'd really like most of the objects seen in the map to be available as statics: Litfassäulen, buses, cars, airport utils (even better than the venerable virpil pack), the works. These Ugra maps (IMHO) are chock full of fantastic objects that I'd just love to place myself to touch up my mission's focus scenery. Here's hoping for a 'Germany Scenery Pack'.  

And the balloons too, so we can place 99 (red ones) over Berlin.

 

Thanks @MAESTR0!! Even as a Norwegian, it's astonishing to see all the places I had forgotten I've been to, (especially when compared to the Kola map ).

I don't think I'll ever leave! Either flying or driving around! 

 

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Edited April 5 by MAXsenna
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[KAKTYC_11]

 Вы бы ещё действующий класс предполётной подготовки сделали на аэродромах, где  вирпилы перед вылетом могли обсудить тактику и стратегию на вылет, а потом на машинах по самолётам . Вот тут бы внутриигровая связь от ED пригодилась . Ей кстати кто-нибудь пользуется вообще ?

Edited April 5 by KAKTYC_11

[Japo32]

is it mencioned the number of GB this map is going to be? I will need to uninstall something first I guess. Thanks!

Edited April 5 by Japo32

[cfrag]

2 hours ago, MAESTR0 said:

gems on your map

Dang!!!! And ambulances/fire trucks with working/flashing lights too! Please make them available as objects, so we can finally build exciting medevac missions with objects to match. pleas, please, please!

[C2705]

There‘s so much detail, wow. My PC will suffer

[MiGCap1]

This map is so unbelievable cool !!!        

[skywalker22]

Indeed it's coming along great. This is gonna be one of the best maps in DCS, no doubt about it. There is just one thing which kind of bothers me, is the texture... 

I would only work on that brown ground texture (which mostly appears around man-made structures), which really doesn't go well in combination with the green. Example:

It seems way to off with one being summer/dry soil while the other is spring/wet grass. I would replace brown with something less green, like summer green grass. Now the difference is way too big, looks odd, and really doesn't coincide with reality (at least not in 90%). Besides it even doesn't present the dry grass, but rather a dry soil, which is even worse, right?

Also the ground normal-map textures could be better as well, they seem way low poly, way too edgy, not in normal shapes. But that wouldn't be that noticeable if there would be less difference between green and brown texture.

Try replacing brown texture with something more gray-ish, more like summer grass texture, that it would look something like:

 

Dry base grass textures should be something like this:

[Swiso]

@MAESTR0 One question ( sorry if already mentioned..)

Are all the buildings and structures destructible or not ?

 

Thanks for all the previews ! 

[MAESTR0]

Thank you for your support. We are glad to see that you like the map and this gives us even more desire to improve it. It is very nice when you remember the places where you served or walked as a child. The map is very large and we want to recreate everything, but we have to think about resources and your SSD/HDD. And like any of our maps, it does not stand still and is constantly evolving: it will be improved and refined, including according to user requests.

Today we will answer some questions and tell you a little about what we added:
@Swiso Yes, most of the buildings are destructible. Many with detailed damage models. The rule with original objects is the same - we don't bomb them

@KarlRadek thanks for the information about the quarries. I want to say that this place is already under reconstruction: water is pumped out of the lakes and instead of them there will be quarries, like at that time.

There were many requests from you about air defense locations. We had them, but at your requests we increased the number of these places and now they will not only be near large bases. Thanks to everyone who sent in SAM info

@Rick Mave   Ersatzpisten - they are located mostly south of phase 1, in phase 3 territory, but we can already say - don't worry, you'll be able to land on the road.

@C525 today the shelters in Büchel look like this:

[Harry.R]

Fantastic progress Maestro, I'm really excited for this map as the cold war was very much still on when I was growing up . How's Gutersloh looking?

Edited April 7 by Harry.R

[Swiso]

Thanks !! 

[Northstar98]

15 hours ago, MAESTR0 said:

There were many requests from you about air defense locations. We had them, but at your requests we increased the number of these places and now they will not only be near large bases. Thanks to everyone who sent in SAM info

With these, will they be in their real-life positions & configurations? Are there sites appropriate to HAWK, S-75/SA-2, S-125/SA-3 and S-200/SA-5?

Will it also include EWR sites and, if so, where there are radomes can the radome be removed, leaving a structure (be it a tower, pedestal, building etc) with a flat top, so we can place functional radars?

And finally, can we see an example? 

See the spoiler for one from the Sinai map, showing an almost 1:1 recreation of a real Egyptian SA-2 site. If we can have something akin to this (obviously appropriate to the sites in Germany), then that would be perfect (and Ugra already have a perfectly adequate SA-2 launcher revetment on Syria, it only needs a retexture and it would be good to go as-is on Germany):

Spoiler

For me, the presence of real-life air defence sites, in their real-life positions (even if we have generic HAWK, SA-2 and SA-3 etc sites, placed where they really are/historically were) is very important to me - the closer I can get to recreating the real-life air defence order of battle, the better.

If Ugra does this, then I'll be absolutely sold.

Edited April 8 by Northstar98
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[Rick Mave]

2 hours ago, MAESTR0 said:

@Rick Mave   Ersatzpisten - they are located mostly south of phase 1, in phase 3 territory, but we can already say - don't worry, you'll be able to land on the road.

 

Wonderful news!

[pjbunnyru]

guys, I'm little shocked by number of videos of  map, in diferent areas, at LOW altitud, and also with car rides!!!

i'll buy map on pre-order.

u showed HOW to advertis new map, and we, buyers, see how map looks in REALITI. yes, not everything is shown, but - bravo!!!!

[Slippa]

On 3/26/2025 at 5:35 PM, MAESTR0 said:

@draconus yes, flags react to the wind, so you will always know its direction 

Hallelujah! Finally a sensible windsock, in a flight simulator, imagine that. Congratulations and thank you .

I’ve only seen a couple of posts mentioning a 1940s version of Germany or any thought about it. When I heard we were finally getting Germany I assumed it would be in line with N2 and I’d be escorting or flying B-17s or Lancs over there. I had hoped maybe ED might surprise us with some props to go along with it. A Heinkel here, a 110 there, flyable B-17, who knows?  But no.  I’ll have to wait for these, probably forever. Cold War it is then, with all that dodgy music? Bust out some Blondie . 1999 will get a spin or two though .

There were hints recently that we (that wanna fly props) might fly missions in the dark over Germany, hopefully in the Lanc but in every other prop as well. That there might be a time-toggle or something like a blackout to take us from the Cold War era and roll us back to the 40s, almost? There was even mention of a WWII version of the map, (paid for o course), in the blood, sweat and tears of the Ugra team maybe but I’d gladly pay for a 40s Germany version myself. Any thought given on the subject?

- Who’s volunteering to make the German Assets Pack then? I’m gonna need a Splitty Microbus in RAF livery .

[MiGCap1]

The Cold War Germany Map will be immediately after publishing the top map in DCS, I think.

A WW2 version later would also be great, but it has not necessarily be on the same size. I would buy with pleasure.

[MAESTR0]

19 часов назад, Northstar98 сказал:

With these, will they be in their real-life positions & configurations? ...

Yes, our sources match those posted on the forum, thanks again for the help. We were guided by these sources. Several types of SAM sites were made - they differ in size.
In addition to them, some airbases have unique elevations for installing radars - these objects are merged with the terrain and were placed according to photos or airfield schemes. Yes, they are empty and will allow you to install your equipment.
Look at the screenshots: SAMs, radars are installed in the mission editor - you can install your in these places.

[flanker1]

vor 4 Minuten schrieb MAESTR0:

Yes, our sources match those posted on the forum, thanks again for the help. We were guided by these sources. Several types of SAM sites were made - they differ in size.
In addition to them, some airbases have unique elevations for installing radars - these objects are merged with the terrain and were placed according to photos or airfield schemes. Yes, they are empty and will allow you to install your equipment.
Look at the screenshots: SAMs, radars are installed in the mission editor - you can install your in these places.

WOW, thanks for the insights @MAESTR0 - this is simply amazing and exceeds my expectations!!!! Very well done and promising. The first picture, shows it the Sam Site related to Damgarten Airfield/Baltic Sea?

[Northstar98]

18 minutes ago, MAESTR0 said:

Yes, our sources match those posted on the forum, thanks again for the help. We were guided by these sources. Several types of SAM sites were made - they differ in size.
In addition to them, some airbases have unique elevations for installing radars - these objects are merged with the terrain and were placed according to photos or airfield schemes. Yes, they are empty and will allow you to install your equipment.
Look at the screenshots: SAMs, radars are installed in the mission editor - you can install your in these places.

I couldn't be happier, outstanding stuff!

EDIT: Only thing I'll mention, though I'm very happy with it as-is, is I don't think any SA-5 site in Germany had 3 launch battalions, only 2. However, the configuration of the launch battalions and the revetments looks pretty much spot-on for what I'd expect.

Edited April 8 by Northstar98

[Northstar98]

1 minute ago, flanker1 said:

The first picture, shows it the Sam Site related to Damgarten Airfield/Baltic Sea?

There are 2 SA-3 sites in the vicinity of Damgarten, one is further to the north-west near Saal and the other is located practically on the grounds of the airbase.

If it is one of the Damgarten sites, it's a closer match for the former (and if so, it's perfect for our needs):

There's an EWR site (a) immediately to the south-east, which almost certainly would've hosted smaller truck or trailer mounted radars (such as the P-12M/18, P-37 etc).

There are several SA-3 sites on the northern coast though, though the Damgarten-Saal site is the closest fit for the configuration seen.

[Slippa]

Wondering if areas around the Möhne, Eder and Sorpe dams will be modelled and if so would they have extensive damage models? Pretty, pretty please, asking for a friend, thank you .

Edited April 8 by Slippa
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